Doug McIlhagga

Doug McIlhagga (Mac-ILL-hag-guh) joined the University Marketing and Communications team as the the director of marketing and external affairs in January 2012 and was elevated to executive director of marketing and communications in January 2014. He is responsible for implementing strategic and creative communications plans that incorporate the University’s mission, vision and values while building SIUE’s brand recognition nationally, regionally and locally.

Prior to joining SIUE, he served the Saint Louis University Department of Athletics for more than 20 years. He was athletics media relations director for 16 years before being promoted to senior associate director of athletics for the remainder of his tenure, continuing to oversee the athletics media relations unit during that time. Early in his professional career, he worked for 10 years in radio in central New York, south central Missouri and eastern Iowa. He transitioned from media into media relations by working for a variety of public relations and event management agencies in St. Louis before landing at SLU in 1991.

A Buffalo, N.Y., native, he earned a bachelor's in television/radio from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communication. He later earned a master’s in sport management from the U.S. Sports Academy in Daphne, Ala.